About Speed Kit
Slow websites suck! Of 3.5 hours you spend online each day, 20 minutes are wasted waiting for websites to load. In your life, you will waste one whole year.
Join our mission of building a web without loading times to make all Internet users happier. Our product Speed Kit is the all-in-one page speed tool and accelerates websites worldwide, including market leading companies like BMW, Zwilling and GANT.
Our world-class team uses the latest web technology trends to make our customer websites up to 4x faster and to improve the user experience for 300 million users per month.
Sounds exciting? Come on board and help us so that no one has to suffer from lost time!
Vibe coding transforms how software gets built — and at Baqend, this transformation is already happening.
That's why we're looking for a Vibe Coding Architect (all genders) in full-time (40 hours) to shape how our non-technical teams build reliable, secure applications with AI coding tools like Claude Code.
About Your Role
Vibe coding changes who builds software. At Baqend, our Sales, Customer Success, and other non-technical teams are increasingly creating their own tools, dashboards, and automations using Claude Code and similar AI coding assistants. This is powerful — but it also creates new challenges around architecture, code quality, security, and maintainability.
That's where you come in. As our Vibe Coding Architect, you are the bridge between our engineering standards and our non-technical teams' growing ability to build software. You design the guardrails, shared infrastructure, and best practices that enable everyone to ship reliable, secure applications — regardless of their technical background. You're embedded in our Frontend Team but operate mostly independently, working across the entire company as an enabler, reviewer, and go-to architect for AI-assisted development.
About your potential tasks
AI-Assisted Development Architecture: Design and maintain the foundational setup for Claude Code projects — including CLAUDE.md conventions, MCP configs, reusable skills/plugins, and prompt engineering best practices that make AI coding tools effective and safe for non-technical users.-
Code Review & Quality Assurance: Review AI-generated code from non-technical teams, identify architectural issues and security gaps, and refactor where needed — acting as the technical safety net for all AI-assisted development.
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Shared Infrastructure & Tooling: Build and maintain reusable components (auth modules, DB schemas, API wrappers, deployment templates) and design Git workflows (branching strategies, PR reviews, CI gates) that keep shared projects stable and the development experience frictionless.
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Deployment & Integration: Set up deployment pipelines (Firebase/GCP) with proper access control and monitoring, and design reliable integration patterns — scheduled data syncs, automated reporting, webhook-driven automations — with error handling and secrets management.
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Database & Storage Design: Define data architecture decisions (Firestore vs. relational DB vs. spreadsheet), set up access control, and ensure teams can work with shared data safely.
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Training & Enablement: Run hands-on workshops and create documentation that teaches non-technical colleagues how to use Claude Code, Git, and your shared infrastructure effectively. You don't just build — you teach others to build.
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Strong technical foundation in software engineering — whether from a CS degree, bootcamp, or years of hands-on experience — with full-stack skills across frontend (React/TypeScript), backend (Node.js/Python), databases (SQL/NoSQL), and cloud infrastructure (GCP/Firebase preferred)
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Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) — you understand both their power and their failure modes
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Deep understanding of Git workflows, DevOps, and deployment — from branching models and CI gates to getting a prototype into production with authentication, monitoring, and secrets management
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Strong grasp of web fundamentals — HTTP, browser APIs, authentication patterns (OAuth, API keys), REST API design. You can explain why a technical decision matters, not just which tool to use
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Excellent communication skills in German and English — you work daily with non-technical colleagues and explain architectural decisions clearly, patiently, and without jargon
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Ownership mindset — you're comfortable working independently, making architectural calls, and taking responsibility for the internal developer platform you build
- We set you up with your office work station from screen to office chair
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Pick your OS: You can freely choose your OS between Mac, Windows or Linux
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Beautiful office: Work in the heart of Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel
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Pet-friendly office: You’re always welcome to bring a furry friend
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Awesome coworkers: Join a competent, humorous crew
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Flexible work: Work on a full-time or part-time schedule
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Flat hierarchies: The best ideas win, no matter by whom
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Event slots: Several times a year you can vote on what to do - haven't you always wanted to go karting with your colleagues? Vote for it!
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Speed.Fest: Every quarter we all get together at our HQ in Hamburg for workshops, good food, events and a great time.
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Personal training budget: We help you to grow your career and skills
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Future-proof pension scheme: feel free to bring your pension scheme with you or let our experts advise you
6️⃣ … You share your CV or LinkedIn profile with us
5️⃣ … We schedule a first (video-) call (15~30 minutes)
4️⃣… We schedule a 1st technical interview to get you in contact with the team (30~60 minutes)
3️⃣… We send you a (coding-) case to prepare for our 2nd meeting
2️⃣… We schedule a 2nd technical interview to talk about the (coding-) case (90~120 minutes)
1️⃣… If both sides are happy, we will prepare the contract
…0️⃣ You join our rocket ship!
Simon is happy to receive your application and is available for your questions @ [email protected]
Baqend develops Speed Kit, a SaaS plugin solution to accelerate e-commerce websites by more than 50% within 2 days.
Baqend is a research spin-off from the University of Hamburg on the mission of building a web without loading times. The founders pioneered a novel approach to speed up the delivery of dynamic data. Speed Kit bundles years of this research in a plugin for large-scale e-commerce and brand websites, that is easily implemented by just a line of JavaScript code. Today, some of the leading European e-commerce players like Decathlon, Galeria, and BMW already rely on Speed Kit to improve their conversion rates, user experience, and SEO ranking. Since the product’s speed uplift is cleanly proven by statistically sound A/B-tests, Baqend is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Germany.
